Year: 2015

Happy Birthday Paul

Speaking of Paul and Birthdays… Happy Birthday to my dear husband Paul Basile! He is thousands of miles away in Alaska today. Luckily I have this little friend to help me celebrate in South Sudan. Photo by Katie Basile @basilekatie for @burndiary

Old Fangak

Hello @burndiary followers. I am @basilekatie and this week I am posting from Old Fangak in South Sudan. Old Fangak is a town occupied by people from the Nuer tribe. Thousands of people from the Nuer tribe have been murdered at the hands of soldiers over the past 14-months.Though it is landlocked, Old Fangak is …

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Igor Posner – Cargo

Igor Posner Cargo [ EPF 2014 SHORTLIST ] Whether anyone is watching or not, migration is a lingering leap into the void. Collision of social with personal, empathy with intellection, this experience is often not misunderstood, it is rather unrecognized – as languages we’ve vaguely heard at some point in our lives, or weather and …

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That’s the Zone

    Rio de Janeiro gets me rolling. Fires me up. Life becomes pictures. Pictures become life. That’s the zone. The only place I want to live. #rio #beachgames#burnmagazine #copacabana #leica #monochrom

Moullie Point

This is my final post on @burndiary this time round.A woman waits for her family of runners in the cool Atlantic fog in Moullie Point.Singing out, Barry Christianson @thesestreetsza #shootingcapetown #fog

Bruno

Rio de Janiero. One of my photo students, 21 yr old Bruno Machado, is ecstatic with an after class beach hang. #rio #copacabana #beachgames #burnmagazine#photoworkshops

Urban Lounge

Urban lounge/public toilet. I’m not sure which of the signs to believe.Photograph by Barry Christianson @thesestreetsza #shootingcapetown #seapoint #southafrica

Kayak

A woman waits while her kayak is prepared.Photograph by Barry Christianson @thesestreetsza #shootingcapetown #shootingsouthafrica #fog

Workshop Group Shot

Rio de Janeiro. It’s a wrap. My photo workshop students and workshop team share a glass of champagne the morning after our grand finale slideshow at Ateli da Imagem last night. I cannot remember a more closely bonded class. We were shooting side by side all week. I was shooting my BeachGames zine and students …

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Roxy’s

To me Roxy’s feels like a bit of OBS that made its way into the cbd. To others it feels more like a Hungarian grime bar. Either way I love it and the beer (Carling black label) is cheap.Photograph by Barry Christianson @thesestreetsza #shootingcapetown #shootingsouthafrica #roxys #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite